In That Day

When God speaks of the "House of Jacob" God is addressing the "House of Israel" in the corporate sense, with all its sins, and ugliness, and self-reliance that Jacob had before God changed his name to Israel. When we apply this term to the N.T. time, the "House of Jacob" represents the Corporate Church, or the External Church, the church that can be observed externally as an organization. As you know, the Bible teaches that not everyone in the Corporate Church is a saved person. Every Church, including this one, contains people who are not yet saved. Therefore we want to distinguish the External Church, or the Corporate Church, from the Eternal Church, which is that body of believers who truly have been saved.